House Oversight Committee chair James Comer said that he would take Donald Trump “at his word” and accept the White House’s denial that the president had any involvement in a sexually suggestive note and drawing found inside Jeffrey Epstein’s birthday book.
The Texas Republican on Tuesday told reporters that his committee, which is leading an investigation into the federal government’s handling of the Epstein files, was not inclined to investigate the authenticity of a signature allegedly belonging to Trump at the bottom of the letter.